31.   Rodeck said the technique is safer and easier and can be used earlier than other approaches, which include tying off or heat-sealing the umbilical cord.

32.   The baby was dressed in a night shirt and diaper and his umbilical cord had been tied off.

33.   The Braves tied it off Chan Ho Park in the fourth on a two-out, RBI double by Lopez.

34.   It took the veteranarians more than four hours to tie off the arch in the aorta and correct the narrowing in the gullet, Goldin said.